Student Project in ESM5984
Scientific Visual Analysis with Multimedia
Project Investigators:
Colin McComb (colin@clark.ce.vt.edu)
Sailesh Ramakrishnan (sailesh@clark.ce.vt.edu)
Title: Development of a Construction Equipment Management System
Background
This project was conceived with the help of Dr. Michael Vorster.
Dr. Vorster has done extensive work with construction equipment management. This
project is the culmination of numerous meetings with Dr. Vorster for insight and
advice on how a better system for construction eq uipment management could help
the construction industry. The project determines the best way to show the
information pertaining to equipment conditions, and as an end result the project
develops a construction equipment management system for use in the industry.
The Project
The investigators have been supplied with a vast amount of usable data pertaining
to various types of construction equipment. Through a joint effort with Dr.
Vorster, the criteria for determining the condition of equipment has been
determined. Condition of equipment shall contain the variables: age, cost & reliability. Management of equipment will
also be accomplished through viewing activity plots.
and economic plots. The investigators have also made
educated guesses on the best ways to present information based on Tufte's
principles of data visualization.
Objectives
The project has three main objectives.
The first is the determination of the best
format for presentation of the data that we have been
supplied. The next two objectives of the project will be the bulk of the project.
First, the system will enable the user to determine the condition of any
individual piece of equipment in terms of age, cost and reliability as well as
by viewing the economics and useage. It will also allow him/her to access
past records pertaining to the condition of that piece of equipment.
Secondly, the system will enable the user to compare the condition of one
piece of equipment to all other similar pieces of equipment throughout the fleet.
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Colin McComb (colin@clark.ce.vt.edu)
Sailesh Ramakrishnan (sailesh@clark.ce.vt.edu)
